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Summary: Sobering and Funny
Review: Sobering and funny, this expose reveals the lies and the biggest liars of the right wing including George Bush's false Christianity and his misinformation about improving education (No child left behind) while cutting funding for educational programs (Head Start, Title 1, etc.) and teacher training. George Bush uses friendly sounding names for programs that eliminate health, safety and environmental regulations that are poisoning our air and water including safeguards that protect us from things like Mad Cow disease.George Bush is raping and looting our democracy and handing over the wealth and power of our nation to his richest friends and campaign contributors. Recommend this book to friends and family and help take back our country in November, 2004. There is no left wing bias in the media. There is a right wing bias. Our media outlets are owned by a small number of large corporations which benefit from spreading right wing propaganda and suppressing the truth. Fox Lies - Scare and Dishonest reporting is a GOP infomercial. Despite this, the majority of people who work in the media are liberal because they are better informed than most. Al Franken reveals the lies. To see how the rest of the media suppress the truth read "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by investigative reporter Greg Palast. If you have any doubts, read any of the 20 or 30 books that have come out recently to corroborate the lies of George Bush and the right wing. Here a few reccomendations: Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative by David Brock,
Bushwhacked : Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivins
Pigs at the Trough : Corporate Greed Political Corruption by Arianna Huffington
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman
Weapons of Mass Deception: Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq by Sheldon Rampton
Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine by Joe Conason
Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country... by Jim Hightower
The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception by David Corn
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Summary: al franken, the master of taking it all in stride
Review: social-political discourse with a rapier wit. i would have laughed until something exploded if the right-wing wasn't so horrifyingly chilling in their historical amnesia and selective 'truths' with the blatant urgency to influence america. look at the current trends, 'you aren't a american if you think x and y. you're a traitor.' ug. franken pokes the eyes of those 'lying liars,' in the public eye - special attention to his old pal, and liar extraordinaire o'reilly and others of the same low-life caliber. fun and irreverent he finds no problem with lambasting the abundant misdeeds and duplicity of those purporting to give a 'fair and balanced' view of the world - the world they seem to have constructed out of thin air and with very little basis in this world at all. it's a heady topic but much is here - memorials into democrat clubbing just to further their hate campaign, the bush administration and its tap dance around the truth, political bias in certain 'news programs' (*cough*), and a holy host of others. a good gift for your beloved truth-seeker, and a necessity present for your misguided right-winger.
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Summary: What a Bitter Moron
Review: Some liberal spokesman- Catty, juvenile and BITTER- I don't really
care for Coulter's petty attacks either, but at least she's
got an excuse for acting like a woman.
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Summary: Hilarious and revealing
Review: Some of Al Franken's television humor does not appeal to me. But this book is intelligent and very funny. My ultra-right, conservative mom laughed her head off while reading it !
A must read for any one interested in today's politics.
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Summary: An extremely funny book that will agitate all who read it
Review: Some of the best books and films I have seen or read in recent years have been those which instill a sense of responsibility to take action. This is often not through a direct call to action, but simply by revealing the injustices in our society in a way that makes the reader feel that they must be remedied. This is one of those books. Al Franken, along with a team of students from Harvard who verify every fact and example he gives (there is very little ambiguity in his points and examples and they are all well documented), lays down two major premises in the book: firstly, how there is no "big liberal conspiracy" in the media; and secondly, how conservatives lie time and again to further their political agenda, at the expense of the welfare of the American people. This book will agitate all who read it: liberals will feel a sense of responsibility to be proactive, as well and a sense of validation of their beliefs after being so harshly criticized by conservatives for so long. Conservatives may dismiss the entire book as liberal exaggeration, or ironically, lying. Hopefully, some conservatives will begin to understand and accept some liberal viewpoints, and also understand how they have been lied to for so long by the GOP. Instead of concentrating his attack on conservatism in general, Franken decries the deception and hypocrisy of its leaders and the right-wing media, which are hurting Americans, as well as people throughout the world.
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Summary: hysterical
Review: Some reviewers are missing the point of the book. Franken is a comedian, and the book is meant to be funny. It scores big time in this regard. There were times that I laughed so hard I was crying and sweating. Franken's books are the only books I have read that can accomplish this level of laughter. If you don't believe that O'Reilly, Hannity, Coulter and other extremists are liars-and a litle bit crazy-then you likely will not find it so funny. And you are probably a little crazy.
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Summary: A Truly Awful Book
Review: Somebody here said that this was a very funny read. They must not have read the same book as this. It STINKS BIGTIME.
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Summary: Al Frankly I'm Full of Crap!!!!!
Review: Somebody save the trees he uses to write this crap on!!!!!
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Summary: About time
Review: Somebody who has a pulpit used it. And funny as well. True where it counts and when Al is not telling the truth it is in an effort to let you see why others do not. Just stay awake when you read it.
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Summary: simply hysterical
Review: Someone needs to stand up and laugh in the face of self-aggrandizing power, and Franken does it, for umpteen chapters. The blowhards at Fox, the short-skirt feminine nazi Coulter, and the rest of them catch it between the eyes. While you're laughing out loud, you also happen to be learning. And getting steamed. We've been had by a bunch of sanctimonious, self-righteous righties who pretend victimization at the hands of the Liberal Press. What a load of hoo-ie, and Franken underscores it. A must read, and a must laugh.
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